Category Archives: Racism

As Women’s History Month comes to an end, we at the Racial Wealth Divide Initiative think it is important to reflect upon how racial economic inequality intersects with gender economic inequality. Overall, women earn lower wages and experience higher levels of poverty than men. ... Read more

Consider these three facts. African-Americans in the U.S. are 6.4 times more likely than whites to be in jail. The black unemployment rate in the U.S. is consistently twice as high as white unemployment. An African-American person in the U.S. today can expect to die 3.5 years sooner than ... Read more

“This bank is just what the freedmen need,” remarked President Abraham Lincoln on March 3, 1865, as he signed the Freedman’s Bank Act, authorizing the organization of a national bank for recently emancipated black Americans. A little more than a month later he was killed, making the Freedman’s ... Read more

In it, he documents how racial segregation in housing did long-term damage to African-American family wealth, income, job opportunities, and access to good public education. More than sixty years ago, when Ford Motor Company closed its Richmond, CA assembly plant, Frank Stevenson was among 250 ... Read more

Above Photo: ABEP and Blexit are the work of Twin Cities Black economic leaders including Me’ Lea Connelly (center), Brett Grant (left of Connelly), and Danielle Mkali (right of Connelly) Google is blocking our site. Please use the social media sharing buttons (upper left) to share this ... Read more

Above Photo: House Speaker Paul Ryan (second from left) and U.S. House members gather after passing a tax reform bill Nov. 16, 2017, in Washington, D.C. (Getty Images) Google is blocking our site. Please use the social media sharing buttons (upper left) to share this on your ... Read more

Above Photo: Mark Dixon / Flickr Enrollment rates are still higher for whites than blacks or Latinos. Now is the worst time to roll back affirmative action. There’s a saying: “When you’re accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression.” I thought of that when I heard about the ... Read more

July 31st is Black Women’s Equal Pay Day, the day that marks how long into 2017 an African American woman would have to work in order to be paid the same wages as her white male counterpart was paid last year. Black women are uniquely positioned to be subjected to both a racial ... Read more